My recommendation on beard balm is to make your own. It's the furthest thing from rocket science a DIY project can be, and if you screw up it means you made it to hard or to soft so you just melt it back down and adjust. Commercially available stuff is very expensive and if you detest scents then your pickings are slim because most manufacturers believe you want a persistent odor of pine trees or vanilla around you. Most are packaged in such a way they seem more like impulse purchase gifts for your beardless friends to buy for you at Christmas time than something you'd buy over and over on a regular basis for yourself.
Quote from: Semi-Sly on July 19, 2015, 10:06:54 PMQuote from: Mike E. P. on July 19, 2015, 12:37:20 PMHi Doc- yeah. I get bored. I shaved it off but kept a goatee. Right now I'm off for the summer so I don't shave too frequently and revel being a little sloppy. The beard comes back in the fall. Half the fun for me is growing it!Photos - or it didn't happen!Here you go Randy. Off for the summer and scruffy.Oh Mike - that looks great. It is so good to see your face for a change.Someone "accused" me of hating beards. While I don't "hate" beards; is dislike about 90% of the ones I see.1. Very, very, very, few men take care of their beards. They only grow them because the are lazy.2. Very, very, very few men know how to trim a beard! Longer is almost never better! LONG BEARDS ONLY LOOK GOOD ON MEN WHO HAVE LOG FACES AND LOTS OF HAIR ON THE TOP OF THEIR HEAD TO BALANCE OUT THE LINEAR LINE.Thicker is only b better if the thickness of the beard doesn't make you look like you have a fat face!3. A beard covers some of a man's best features. Back in the old days when many men had bad teeth and, as a result, had crooked or receding jawlines, a beard could hide these deformities. But today with the dental hygiene we have, why hide your jawline unless you have a weak chin?4. I especially dislike beards on bald men - because it is like a neon sign shouting; "I am trying to compensate for the lack of hair on my head". Beards on bald men are kind of like middle aged guys who drive Corvettes (they look like they are trying to make up for something that they lack). And BALD GUYS ARE THE WORST AT CUTTING THEIR BEARDS ITO A SHAPE WHICH MAKE THEIR OVERALL FACIAL SHAPE LOOK GOOD.A bald man is beautiful. Without hair on his head his facial features really stand out out - SO WHY HIDE THEM?
Quote from: Mike E. P. on July 19, 2015, 12:37:20 PMHi Doc- yeah. I get bored. I shaved it off but kept a goatee. Right now I'm off for the summer so I don't shave too frequently and revel being a little sloppy. The beard comes back in the fall. Half the fun for me is growing it!Photos - or it didn't happen!
Hi Doc- yeah. I get bored. I shaved it off but kept a goatee. Right now I'm off for the summer so I don't shave too frequently and revel being a little sloppy. The beard comes back in the fall. Half the fun for me is growing it!
Someone "accused" me of hating beards. While I don't "hate" beards; is dislike about 90% of the ones I see.1. Very, very, very, few men take care of their beards. They only grow them because the are lazy.2. Very, very, very few men know how to trim a beard! Longer is almost never better! LONG BEARDS ONLY LOOK GOOD ON MEN WHO HAVE LOG FACES AND LOTS OF HAIR ON THE TOP OF THEIR HEAD TO BALANCE OUT THE LINEAR LINE.Thicker is only b better if the thickness of the beard doesn't make you look like you have a fat face!3. A beard covers some of a man's best features. Back in the old days when many men had bad teeth and, as a result, had crooked or receding jawlines, a beard could hide these deformities. But today with the dental hygiene we have, why hide your jawline unless you have a weak chin?4. I especially dislike beards on bald men - because it is like a neon sign shouting; "I am trying to compensate for the lack of hair on my head". Beards on bald men are kind of like middle aged guys who drive Corvettes (they look like they are trying to make up for something that they lack). And BALD GUYS ARE THE WORST AT CUTTING THEIR BEARDS ITO A SHAPE WHICH MAKE THEIR OVERALL FACIAL SHAPE LOOK GOOD.A bald man is beautiful. Without hair on his head his facial features really stand out out - SO WHY HIDE THEM?
"When your biases prevent you from offering constructive advice, it really is time to keep such opinions to yourself. Lighten up, dude!"Methinks thou dost protest too loudly!